Two days after Abdallah Ghuneimat was killed by Israeli occupation forces, his hometown of Kafr Malik was still reeling.It was not just the killing that caused an overwhelming sense of
shock and anger in the village to the northeast of the occupied West
Bank city of Ramallah. It was also the cruel manner in which it happened.

Recounting the few hours following Ghuneimat’s killing, Kafr Malik
resident Aisha Hamayel said that “his mother was looking at his corpse
from afar, saying, ‘May God help his poor mother,’ not realizing that he
was her son. Is there any worse crime than putting a mother through
this?”“Is there any worse tragedy than a mother not recognizing her son because of how deformed his face was?” she added.